"Imagine barreling down a road while being chased by a giant death laser, at which point you run up a wall and end up on several different routes depending on which direction you take and whether or not you decided to jump. Most platform games focus mainly on one of these three elements, but with our 360-degree physics engine, we believe there is a lot of potential to mix them all into the same package," wrote the developer on Kickstarter. "We jump in quickly with an equal mix of high speed action, platforming, and exploration. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.įreedom Planet may not do any one thing drastically new, but GalaxyTrail seems to have a keen understanding of what made these games work so well in the first place. Looking ahead, the newly added stretch goal of $20,000 will ensure that members of the cast will do Let's Play videos in character.
Based on the first 10 grand, GalaxyTrail made enough to add animated cutscenes and a fourth playable character named Spade, hire extra programmers, and get a leg up in advertising costs so the developers can get a head start on the next game in the series. In fact, Freedom Planet was so successful that it met all of its initial stretch goals earlier today and had to add new ones.
Of course, GalaxyTrail's initial goal was a modest $2000, but as of writing this the total comes to $10,676 with 23 days to go before the deadline on 14th February. Now developer GalaxyTrail has taken the project to Kickstarter where it's made over five times its goal in a week. It had a rather polished demo and hearkened back to the olden days of Sonic with some Rocket Knight and Gunstar Heroes thrown in for good measure. Last summer I wrote about a retro platformer in the works called Freedom Planet.
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